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Santa's Message
Santa's Message
As an apprentice elf working at Lapland HQ, Santa has aked you to prepare the reindeer for the big day. Tomorrow night Santa and his reindeer fly out to spread joy to boys and girls across the world but this can only happen if all of the reindeer are in tip-top condition!
Santa left you with one crucial instruction but - as you were awake all night coding instead of sleeping - you've forgotten what he asked you to do. Luckily the Lapland AI, ChatGIF-T-P, remembers the instructions but will only give them to you in the form of a series of Computer Science-based clues.
Work in teams to solve the clues below to piece together Santa's message and save Christmas!
Enter the final message into the program running on Mr Ridgway's PC to check your final answer. Try and be the first team to complete the challenge!
Word 1
Word 1
Convert the output of the Python code shown into hexadecimal
Hint: The ** symbol in Python means "to the power of"
Word 2
Word 2
Name the type of logic gate used in this truth table. We haven't covered this yet but this should help.
Word 3
Word 3
Convert this binary number into hexadecimal
Hint: Break the number down into four four-bit numbers
word 4
word 4
Work out the output of the Python code shown using the pop function to remove elements from lists
Word 5
Word 5
Work out the output of the Python code shown using list and string indices
word 6
word 6
Work out the output of the Python code shown using list sorting and popping.
Type the answer into https://what3words.com/. The name of the destination is the answer to this clue
word 7
word 7
Imagine you have a created a list containing the symbols for each element of the table of elements, in order.
Work out the output of this code
Word 8
Word 8
Santa's favourite singer is Leonard Cohen. His favourite song by him is "Anthem". This word is hidden in the chorus and can be found using this code.
Word 9
Word 9
Your performance review is based on a number of factors and is calculated using this code.
Your score for each element of the performance review were as follows:
wrappingSpeed: 3
jolliness: 3
toyBuilding: 7
gameCoding: 10
christmasCheer: 1
Word 10
Word 10
Complete the jumbled up film title stored in this list.
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